Connects Plus
Bring your culture to life with a branded, points-based peer-to-peer recognition platform that unites teams and fuels engagement.
Points-Based Recognition that Drives Connection and Performance
Connects’ Plus strengthens workplace culture, improves employee experience, and delivers positive, measurable business results. An intuitive and integrated Cloud-based solution, Connects Plus helps organizations cultivate a culture of appreciation, transforming the way employees think, feel, and act at work. The outcome: employees come and stay, productivity improves, and your organization thrives.
Trusted Recognition Programs for Companies in Every Industry
Create a Culture of Recognition with Connects Plus
Make Employee Recognition a Part of Everyday Life at Work
Recognize
Recognize individuals and teams for a job well done, major accomplishments, living core values, and every moment in between. Personalize the recognition experience, so key behaviors and what matters most is reinforced and celebrated. Showcase great work and accomplishments on the social wall, ensuring everyone gets in on the joy of recognition. Make recognizing easy to do by integrating it into the employees’ flow of work and mobile devices.
Connect
Foster peer-to-peer social connection within and across teams. Promote company-wide engagement with posts on the public social wall and congratulatory messages that everyone can participate in with a comment, like, fun emojis, and GIFs. Encourage personalization of individuals’ profiles, activity feeds, and language settings, nurturing inclusion and community across the organization.
Reward
Elevate the recognition experience with a points-based system. Managers and program administrators choose how and when to offer rewards, while employees have the freedom to select gifts from our global marketplace.
Redeem
Earn reward points that can be redeemed for a wide variety of top brand products, gift cards, and experiences from a thoughtfully curated global marketplace. Our global rewards marketplace features over 100 million rewards from 2,500+ trusted brands. Points can also be used toward charitable giving to a variety of philanthropies.
Reporting
Drive continuous improvement with robust reporting, analytics, and real-time employee feedback. Interactive dashboards and reports put employee engagement data at administrators’ and managers’ fingertips to optimize strategies and predict trends that will improve bottom lines. Through our partnership with The Happiness Index, explore and assess employee sentiment by integrating survey and assessment tools.
Communicate
Share company news and information through the Spotlight area. Add fun and personalization to the experience with images, videos, attachments, and more. Foster an organization-wide sense of community while reinforcing company values, brand, and mission. Send recognition for a job well done, or any other accomplishment, either publicly or privately. Animate your message with an eCard or GIF, making recognition fun and inspiring.
Celebrate the Moments that Matter in 4 Easy Steps
Imagine being able to easily brighten a colleague's day with just a few clicks. Connects makes it happen in 4 easy steps.
Personalize the Experience
With a thoughtful message, videos, photos, or GIFs, share what you are recognizing the individual or team for with or without points. Unsure of where to start? Our Guide Me feature helps you select the right type of recognition based on the scope, scale, and experience you are trying to create for the recipient.
Choose a Gift
Employees can bank and then redeem points received for over 2,500 top-brands and services representing the latest and most popular reward options. Between gift cards, merchandise, charitable giving, and tickets or events, our global marketplace has everything your employees want.
Track Impact
Monitor program, cultural, and business performance. Interactive dashboards, reports, analytics, and surveys provide real-time insight into how employees are thinking and feeling so adjustments can be made to people strategies and program plans in order to improve employee engagement, decrease turnover, and more.
Ongoing Support
We don’t take a ‘set it and forget it’ approach; Inspirus serves as true strategic partner in your recognition journey. We work collaboratively with you to understand your culture, align our platform with your objectives, and continuously optimize your recognition strategy based on real-time insights. Through regular check-ins and strategic recommendations, we ensure your recognition program delivers meaningful engagement and measurable results that evolve with your organization's needs.
Recognition Where Work Happens
Connects integrates with your everyday tools, making employee recognition and engagement seamless.
Make recognition effortless by bringing Connects directly into your employees' daily workflow. Our integration experts can seamlessly incorporate our platform into communication tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack.
Connect with your HRIS system through our open API. We develop custom integrations tailored to your organization's unique technology ecosystem, ensuring recognition becomes a natural part of your employees' workday.
The Happiness Index
Assess How Engagement and Happiness Drive People and Business Outcomes Through Powerful Employee Surveys
Measure the cultural health of your organization and understand how your employees think and feel through valuable and actionable insights into the well-being of your employees.
From Concept to Celebration:
The Partner with Results You Can Trust
Because of our dedication to service and support, Inspirus received a 70 NPS score from our clients and currently has a 98% retention rate.
Our commitment to our customers extends far beyond delivering exceptional engagement and recognition solutions. From solution design services to robust technical support, continuous education, and strategic planning, we walk with our customers on every step of their journey to cultivate a joyful and engaged workplace culture and workforce.
 70% Net Promoter Score2024 |
 96% Satisfaction RateMeeting Engagement Goals |
 96% Satisfaction RateInspirus Responsiveness |
Explore the Power of Connects Plus
A strong workforce starts with everyday recognition. Explore how Connects Plus helps you build a culture of appreciation that keeps employees engaged, motivated and inspired to do their best work.